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"Tech Industry Sets Its Sights on Gambling"

If you love gambling and live in Delaware, you'll soon be able to legally play slots and games such as roulette and poker online. The state hopes to launch online gambling in 2013 and intends to make betting available on a variety of digital devices, including smartphones and tablets. The new gambling offerings will generate $7.75M in fiscal 2013.

Sweden's refusal to open up its gambling market means it is missing out on billions in tax revenue and is hindering the growth of its online gambling industry, Casinoonline.se report concludes. Sweden may be missing out on billions of Krona in tax and licensing revenue, as well as jeopardizing the continued growth of one of its key high tech industries, by not opening up its online gambling market to competition. This is the conclusion reached in an in-depth report conducted by Casinoonline.se, a leading online casino portal.

"Troves of virtual chips can be cashed in for prizes ranging from buffet meals to show tickets, lodging, swimming with dolphins at the Mirage, or selecting music for the dancing fountain display outside the Bellagio. "

A report released by Juniper Research the mobile gambling market, which is currently worth $13 billion a year, will be worth around $100 billion a year by 2017. Already William Hill, Ladbrokes and Paddy Power have all seen a 40% increase in online sports-books customer placing bets from mobile devices. A quick look at some of the biggest gambling operators easily reveals how much focus they're placing on mobile gambling. All Slots Mobile has just launched an HTML5 platform for Apple devices which brings 11 of its most popular mobile slots and video poker games to the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.